US Patent Issued to Google on May 6 for "Yield improvements for three-dimensionally stacked neural network accelerators" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,473, issued on May 6, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Yield improvements for three-dimensionally stacked neural network accelerators" was invented by Andreas Georg Nowatzyk (San Jose, Calif.) and Olivier Temam (Antony, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for three-dimensionally stacked neural network accelerators. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining data specifying that a tile from a plurality of tiles in a three-dimensionally stacked neural network accelerator is a faulty tile. The three-dimensionally stac...